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2. Tom Sosnoff: A Q&A with the $600 million man behind ... - AOL

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   Sosnoff, who spent 10 years as an options-market maker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, created Thinkorswim in 1999 and sold it this year to TD Ameritrade (AMTD)for more than $600 million. Now ...

3. Thinkorswim - Wikipedia

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   History. Thinkorswim, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan as an online brokerage specializing in options. [2][3] It was funded by Technology Crossover Ventures. [4] In February 2007, Investools acquired Thinkorswim. [5] In January 2009, it was acquired by TD Ameritrade in a cash and stock deal valued around $606 million ...

4. Swimming (sport) - Wikipedia

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   Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...

5. Swimming lessons - Wikipedia

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   Swimming lessons are the process of learning to swim. In most countries there is a definition of a number of swimming levels that are reached in the process of the curriculum. The respective certificates of swimming tests are required for further training in aquatic abilities. Many countries have defined a minimum swimming level that children ...

6. Jim Ellis (swimming coach) - Wikipedia

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   They gained national recognition as a premier training program, sending team members to the swimming trials for every U.S. Olympic team from 1992 to 2007. [6] In the 1980's, members of Ellis's swim club had received college scholarships for their swimming skills, set national age-group records, and a few had been selected for the Olympic trials ...

7. Bobby Finke - Wikipedia

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   Bobby Finke. Robert Christian Finke OLY (/ ˈfɪŋk / FINK; born November 6, 1999), [2] better known as Bobby Finke, is an American competitive swimmer. He won two gold medals for the United States in the 2020 Summer Olympics: the men's 800-meter and 1500-meter freestyle swims. Finke successfully defended his title in 1500 m freestyle at the ...

8. Lynne Cox - Wikipedia

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   Lynne Cox (born January 2, 1957) [1] is an American long-distance open water swimmer, writer, and speaker.She is best known for being the first person to swim between the United States and the Soviet Union, [2] [3] in the Bering Strait, a feat which has been recognized for easing the Cold War tensions between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

9. The Race Club - Wikipedia

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   The Race Club was founded in 2003 [2] by Gary Hall, Jr., an American swimmer who competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze). A managing partner of The Race Club is Gary Hall, Jr.'s father, Gary Hall, Sr., a three-time Olympic medalist (1968, 1972 and 1976) who was voted the World’s ...